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yap
/jæp/
noun 5verb 3name 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
shut, still
VERB + YAP
poison
YAP + NOUN
blather, fool, lea, sessions
PREP.
about, except, up
Definitions
noun
1
The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
2
Casual talk; chatter.
Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.
They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”
3
The mouth, which produces speech.
Shut your yap!
4
A badly behaved person, especially a child.
5
A fool.
verb
1
Of a small dog, to bark.
2
To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.
3
To rob or steal from (someone).
Ante up! Yap that fool!
name
1
An island in the Caroline Islands of western Micronesia.
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Idioms & Phrases
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Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at lea
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They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”
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Shut your yap!
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You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.
Wiktionary05
Ante up! Yap that fool!
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These yap sessions are starting to get on my nerve.
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